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Stefan
Lorenz Sorgner
In
Search of Lost Cheekiness, An Introduction
to Peter Sloterdijk’s “Critique
of Cynical Reason”
In this essay I wish to give an introduction
to the first main work of a major German contemporary
philosopher - Peter Sloterdijk. He was born in Karlsruhe
in 1947. 36 years later, in 1983, he became the shooting
star of German philosophy with the publication of his
early main work ‘The Critique of Cynical Reason’ with
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Wouter
Kusters
Peter Sloterdijk; A Psychonaut In Outer Space.
In
1983 a book is published by a previously unknown
author, Peter Sloterdijk, called “Critique
of Cynical Reason”. After a year more than
100.000 copies have been sold, and it has become one of the best sold
modern philosophical books in Germany. Moreover, it provides a new tool
for the disappointed left-wing movement to act in the cynical but apparently
inescapable reality of the later days of the cold war. At one stroke
Sloterdijk becomes the new-born star of the Critical School in philosophy. Sixteen
years later the following message appears in a leading German newspaper...
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Review
by Wim Nijenhuis
Peter
Sloterdijk: Medien-Zeit
In the Critique of Cynical Reason (1983) Sloterdijk connected the modern 'cynic'
Nietzsche to the asocial Diogenes, who replied to Plato's subtle theory of
Eros by masturbating in plain public. Sloterdijk dubbed this active polemic
with Reason 'kynicism'.
In Eurotaoïsmus (1989) he entered into a new showdown, this time with
the philosophy of Heidegger, whose theory of Gelassenheit he praised
as a third alternative to dissatisfaction with the world, in opposition to
the other two: Marxism and critical theory.
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Peter
Sloterdijk
The Operable Man -
On the Ethical State of Gene Technology
It is neither our failure nor our accomplishment that we live in a time in which
the apocalypse of man is an everyday occurrence. We don't need to be in amidst
a storm of steel, under torment, in an extermination camp, or to live near such
excesses, in order to experience how the spirit of the most extreme situations
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